The Swellesley Report accepts letters to the editor. Letters must be of general local community interest and must be signed. Community shout-outs are also accepted and encouraged. For example, a non-profit may thank an organization for a donation received.
How to submit your letter to the editor
The deadline is Wednesday at noon for letters to appear on Friday.
Send letters to the editor to theswellesleyreport@gmail.com
Submitting a letter to the editor does not guarantee that your letter will be posted on The Swellesley Report.
Letters must be written for The Swellesley Report only—we do not accept form-type letters sent to multiple news agencies.
More on guidelines
We strive not to cut letters for space, but please keep word count to under 1,500 words. Letters may be edited by The Swellesley Report for length or clarity.
Letters must include the author’s first and last name.
Please include a phone number and street address to allow confirmation.
Letters must include the writer’s address. The street name will appear in the published letter, unless the letter writer expresses a preference for the more generic “Natick resident.” The street number and phone number will not appear.
The Swellesley Report reserves the right to reject letters for publication due to matters of taste and/or inaccuracy.
Letters are voices from the community and do not represent The Swellesley Report in any way.
Authors are limited to one letter published per month.
We do not permit hate speech, name-calling and personal attacks; gratuitous links to your personal website or other websites, political party/campaign, or product/service you represent. An exception is to a candidate’s website in the signature line during election time.
Election letter guidelines
Letters endorsing candidates; pro/con on ballot initiatives; “get out the vote” type letters; etc. are accepted.
As a general policy, if a sampling of letters on a particular issue has already been published, subsequent letters on that same issue may not be published.
Generally speaking, we are willing to run a few letters of endorsement per candidate as well as a few letters about any one issue over the course of the campaign. We would not run letters that are virtual carbon copies of each other.
What Swellesley wants to avoid is serving as a platform for a concerted campaign that is trying to shut out other voices by trying to flood our letters to the editor page with their own agenda.
Please limit the number of signers…we contact letter writers to confirm authenticity and don’t have time to reach out to multiple signers.
No election-related letters will be published the week before the election.
